The Windy City

Well it might be possible that we will once again get internet in our ger, let me stress the possible in that statement. Things are going well here Alli and I are pretty busy because of the upcoming English Olympics (a country wide English competition for students). I am determined to see my schools students beat hers this year, something which historically never happens.
The windy season is upon us. This was made clear to us as one of our windows was ripped off the top of our Ger and then sent flying through the air. Luckily for us Bymba was around and like everything else with a Ger he was able to fix it by cutting a new piece of glass and fitting it to our window, the guy is amazing. Now everything is bungee corded in place in preparation of the real wind that should be starting any day now. We were at Elizabeth’s house the other night and we asked her Hashaa family if our Ger would blow away and they laughed and laughed, “Maybe” was the reply.
I realized that we posted pictures of the Ice festival and didn’t say anything about it. Sorry. So we went to the Ice Festival the other week! It was cool. Get it! It was COOL. That was a play on words. Seriously though, it was freaking freezing, as you can imagine. We had a real good time, there was a horse sleigh race, Ice Sumo, and speed skating. Alli and I were able to take a sleigh ride and as you can tell from the pictures Lake Hovsgul is breathtaking. We are really looking forward to heading up there this summer. Hopefully we will get internet on Friday so keep your fingers crossed. Love Alli and Mike

PDM Baby!

Sorry the posts have become infrequint but with no internet at the site now it is getting difficult to get things out. We just finished our Project Design and Managment seminar that was held in UB this past week. Now I know that we just got back from America 3 weeks ago but we have been gorging ourselves on everything that we can get our hands on. I think that my personal favorite this trip has been the ham and cheese croisant from Michelles bakery, I have eaten about 7 of them in the past three days. Asides from food things are going well, Alli and I are both begining to write grants to create new english resource rooms in our respective schools. The rooms are scheduled to be operating by the begining of next year. We are heading back to site today and hopefully we can take care of this internet thing this week. Oh yea new pictures posted!